Problems with xfig

1997-06-07 Thread Dmitri Nikonov
I have installed the xfig through dselect. It works fine except for two things 1) in the option Picture Object I load an encapsulated Postscript file. Everything works fine. The next time I attempt to open this .fig file, xfig quits without doing anything and gives the following message in xterm

Re: StarOffice and Fvwm95

1997-06-07 Thread Nick
Anyway, it runs fine. The only thing is I'm having a difficult time creating a menu item for fvwm95 minding, though, that it executes properly when I just type in swriter3 in an xterm. The entry in .fvwm95 I'm using looks like all the rest: + StarWriter Exec

Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread John Foster
Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. John F. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Network setup question again

1997-06-07 Thread cheng
On Apr 25, Kevin Traas wrote: Install the package tcpdump, and run `tcpdump -i eth0` to get a view of the packets being sent/received on the eth0 interface. .. Thanks for the advice. This time it really shows something! The IP setting on computer has no problem. Below is the output of

Re: Network setup question again

1997-06-07 Thread Kevin Traas
Install the package tcpdump, and run `tcpdump -i eth0` to get a view of the packets being sent/received on the eth0 interface. .. Thanks for the advice. This time it really shows something! The IP setting on computer has no problem. Below is the output of 'tcpdump -i eht0':

Re: Lyx figures and mice

1997-06-07 Thread Carey Evans
Kingsley G. Morse Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] The User Guide says that the user should click with the center mouse button to popup a dialog box which allows you to insert a postscript figure, but it doesn't work for me. In my case, pressing the middle mouse button dumps out

Re: Installing Debian over Slackware Linux

1997-06-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph B. Ottinger writes: Hi, all. I'm currently running a version of Slackware Linux (3.2, updated with the new kernel+libc and some other things). I'm still relatively new to Linux, so my question may be something that's already been answered or addressed. If so, please tell me where to

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night and constant connection during

Re: Netscape Communicator Beta3/4/5

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, W Paul Mills wrote: I have not had good luck with this one. ( Netscape Communicator 40b3, 40b5 ) Sometimes when it crashes, it causes a reboot! Not cool! I have never had a linux program bring linux to it's knees -- until

Re: Ricoh CDRW (CD-ReWritable) drive

1997-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 06, 1997 at 11:20:50PM +1000, Lawrence Chim wrote: Does Linux support the new Universal Disc Format (UDF)? ISO9660 have several limitations: File names must be only in capital letters , A - Z. File names are limited to the DOS 8 + 3 format. No more than 8 directory

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If you do it too fast, it will crash your

Re: [Q] update-menus broken in 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan: That worked. As you said, there *should* be another way to specify local packages. Though I can understand why update-menus does not add an item if the package is not installed. My preference is that a new test be added (or it might already exist, for all I

Re: Install Stopped

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
Hello, I was installing the new 1.3 version onto a 486 based PC when the install stopped progressing. After formatting a second new floppy, using rawrite2 again to create a second new rescue disk, then rebooting, the exact same thing happened. I got as far as seeing a number of

Re: Problems with xfig

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
1) in the option Picture Object I load an encapsulated Postscript file. Everything works fine. The next time I attempt to open this .fig file, xfig quits without doing anything and gives the following message in xterm xfig3.1.4b: SIGSEGV signal trapped xfig: figure empty or not modified -

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread joost witteveen
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS graphics figures. If you do it too fast, it will

Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote: Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. Install quota on your system. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported

Re: Setting limit on mailbox size with smail

1997-06-07 Thread Karl Ferguson
At 05:43 PM 7/06/97 +0800, A. M. Varon wrote: Anyone know how? I want to put a 2/3 Meg limit on mailbox size on a mail server. Install quota on your system. There's another solution that can be implimented along with quotas which means that it saves bandwidth (if you just install quotas

Re: video card driver (fwd)

1997-06-07 Thread Gernot
Hi There, I am installing linux debian on dell machine and it has a Matrox MGA Millennium PowerDesk video card and I haven't found any Matrox Video Cards in the database provided by the linux. If you please tell me which one in the closest match for the Matrox Video Card's driver, I'll

Mail problem

1997-06-07 Thread Dirk Allard
Hi, I have problems with sending mails from my linux machine. Here is a description of the circumstances: System: Debian Linux 1.3 Linux Kernel 2.1.29 linuxm68k 14 MB, 12 MB Swap Mailprograms: smail as mta mailx, elm or

trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. The problem is that I get the following error message when I try to send a message using MH: post: problem

Vid card memory

1997-06-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X tries to start and dies over

depmod failure

1997-06-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've just built a new 2.0.30 kernel from source in stable and as the last step ran depmod -a. This produced: get_kernel_sys failed: Cannot find Kernel symbols. I built as follows: cd /usr/src/linux; make mrproper;make menuconfig;make dep;make clean;make zlilo;make modules;make

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging through a document that has alot of EPS

Re: depmod failure (fwd)

1997-06-07 Thread branden
Forgot to CC this to the list. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:49:34 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-07 Thread Vadim Vygonets
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to digeven

URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-07 Thread Paul Serice
Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice I got it out of the mini-HOWTO which should be in your /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini directory if you keep it up to date with the latest Debian Packages. :-) I hope it

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-07 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word processor compared to Lyx? ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread stephen farrell
W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, James D. Freels wrote: There is another program that will crash your Linux box: wordIMperfect. Yes I'm talking about the native Linux wordIMperfect. For example try paging

debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

1997-06-07 Thread James D. Freels
I just installed the 1.3 upgrade. I have to say this is the cleanest major Debian upgrade ever! This particular machine is only a print server, and does not have much installed. Nevertheless, Debian is getting better all the time! Many more packages than I will ever need! I did have one

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Dima
Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. I've seen it several days ago -- probably nobody knows the answer. :-( Perhaps try mh

Re: trouble with MH

1997-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hello, I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted, then sorry for the double post. I saw it the first time The problem is that I get the following

InfoMagic Apriil 97 LDR Installation

1997-06-07 Thread David R Baker
I have gotten around the problems of the April 97 LDR and done a fresh Debian 1.2 installation by downloading 7 missing files and creating a directory with correct symbolic links. If anyone else is trying to install from this CD and would like more details, I will try to supply. Otherwise, this

why so many broken links when installing 1.3?

1997-06-07 Thread Lawrence Chim
Tried to install debian 1.3 but dselect displayed broken links error message: Installing Communicator Java files... == moving existing '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar' to '/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/ifc11.jar.old' == moving existing

Re: Vid card memory

1997-06-07 Thread Dima
Ralph Winslow wrote: I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config) X

Getting mail fro ISP, and mime mail setup

1997-06-07 Thread Stan Brown
I have hadan account with Netcom faor a long time. It is a shell account, and provides elm as a mail reader. I also use elm as a mail reader at work. Letley I have had the need to receive and send email with mime inclusions. I beilieve that I need to do 2

Re: was Netscape Communicator: now programs that will crash your LInux box

1997-06-07 Thread jghasler
stephen farrell writes: My take on it was that it took the X server down in some nasty way. The X server, of course, is running as root and thus should be more capable of buggering the whole system. Shouldn't happen, however... The X server also has I/O privileges to the video card. If

Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-07 Thread branden
Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-07 Thread gvl
How about a trick I use in M$DOS frequently to test modem response: ECHO ATH0/dev/modem (or COMx: in DOS) Toss that in right after the pppd kill in your script. On 7 Jun 97, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote regarding: __ Non-interactive modem hangup __ Does anyone know a simple command

Re: Vid card memory

1997-06-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
Dima wrote: Ralph Winslow wrote: I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is 1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800

Re: Newbie

1997-06-07 Thread J.P.D. Kooij
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: 2. Any tips as to how to start NFS services for mounting from my PC /Win95 client? If you want to interface linux with MouseDriver95 then forget NFS and install the samba suite; it does SMB aka MS LanManager aka Microsoft Networking over TCP/IP.